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Speaker 1: Welcome to the OTP. My name is Mike Keith, joined

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Speaker 1: once again by Amy Wells. Hey Mike, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well. Thank you. We have a big time

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Speaker 1: guest with us on the OTP this week. Oh this

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Speaker 1: is a huge one. Is a huge get. It is

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Speaker 1: our head coach, Mike Vrabel. Welcome to the Official Titans Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I can hear the excitement in your voice. You know

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Speaker 1: it's early, but we're glad to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you first about the Igniting the

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Speaker 1: Fire series that we're doing on Facebook Watch and through

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Speaker 1: our digital media channels, because this has gotten great response

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Speaker 1: and it was really your brain child. You were the

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Speaker 1: driving force behind doing it. Talk to us if you would,

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Speaker 1: about what gave you the idea that we should do

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Speaker 1: this type of series showing the Titans organization from behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. Well, I think when we did it in Houston,

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Speaker 1: we were on hard knocks and I thought that the

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Speaker 1: fans liked it. I think, you know. I go home

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Speaker 1: and I asked my kids, what do you guys think?

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Speaker 1: And and they enjoyed the show. I listened to the

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Speaker 1: to grow our brand and through social media, and then

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Speaker 1: I just got to know our you know, in house

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Speaker 1: media staff. I thought, you guys, you know, everybody has

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Speaker 1: done a great job. I thought, you know, Mike and

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Speaker 1: Talk to John about to talk to Amy about it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, everybody seemed excited. And uh, you know, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: you know, over the course of the next five or

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Speaker 1: six weeks, our fans will be able to see kind

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Speaker 1: of what we've done in the last ten weeks of

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Speaker 1: being here. You've got to build a trust factor really

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Speaker 1: in a short period of time in order to be

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Speaker 1: willing to do that. Yeah, I think so. I think

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Speaker 1: that the people in this building, everybody that's here is

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Speaker 1: And part of that though, is being able to let

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Speaker 1: our fans know what we do, because the media really

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Speaker 1: isn't a part of what we do. Starting in March

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Speaker 1: with the OTAs in the Phase one, what Phase two

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Speaker 1: looks like, the meeting time and where we're at on

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Speaker 1: amount of access that we're able to give fans throughout

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Speaker 1: the show is kind of remarkable and unprecedented, especially for

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Where are you hoping that fans notice

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Speaker 1: and being able to pull back that curtain a little bit?

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Speaker 1: I think just appreciate how much work the players are

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Speaker 1: this community. What do you think surprises people or will

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Speaker 1: realize that, you know, I got gassed yesterday morning and

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Speaker 1: since you've been here, you've been asked a lot of

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Speaker 1: run through those real quick? Yes, only if you can

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Speaker 1: Questions about that begin with do you remember do you

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Speaker 1: the books are I think great, but I think we'd

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Speaker 1: Who writes those How did that come to be? So

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Speaker 1: so you know, hopefully we can finish that by the

430
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Speaker 1: time training camps comes and then it'll just be, uh,

431
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: it'll be all football. What's your show right now? Oh

432
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 1: my gosh, I've got I'm starting to watch all of

433
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,919
Speaker 1: these crime shows right now. So there's Staircase on Netflix.

434
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It's it's making a murder. It's a documentary.

435
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: It's like a docuseries about this guy who may or

436
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: may not have killed his wife by pushing her down

437
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: the stairs. What a way to go, you know who.

438
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm really into it right now. I'm all about solving crimes.

439
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: And you know what, we're also a big live PD family.

440
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 1: Really yeah awesome? Yeah, Now when I catch that, I

441
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah. I think that is a great because

442
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,239
Speaker 1: it's like it's cool, cops. It's like a dressed up

443
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: version of like the old school bad boys, Bad Boys.

444
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: You know, that's what you're going. It's exactly what what

445
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 1: we need because it's it's so quick. It's let's go

446
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,239
Speaker 1: from here this this He's scene to another scene, and

447
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: you know, we we've got this going on, and they

448
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 1: just kind of go from city to city and they

449
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: kind of just it doesn't there's no law in the

450
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: action mine. Of course, I've just finished The Americans. The

451
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: Americans has just ended, so I'm I'm without a show

452
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: at this moment. Billions has just ended, so I'm without

453
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: a show because Billions is a great show on Showtime.

454
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Speaker 1: So my favorite football player growing up? Your favorite football player? Seriously, Well,

455
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't get to ask questions. Yeah, my favorite football player.

456
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: Uh gosh. I had a lot of favorite college football

457
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: I was more of a college football probably my favorite

458
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: football player. Um, oh gosh, Well that's difficult. What team

459
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: did you follow? I followed the Cowboys because what college

460
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: team did you fall? Well, Tennessee. I went to Tennessee, Okay,

461
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: so probably they had a defensive end named Dale Jones,

462
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: who was who was a pastor. He's a college is

463
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: a defense. Reggie White. Regie White was an interesting story

464
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 1: because he his first three years at Tennessee he was

465
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: just okay, wow, and then his senior year he became

466
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: the Minister of defense and figured something out. Huh yeah,

467
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: fifteen sacks had set the record. Um, you know, Dale

468
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: Jones was a guy. I like defense. I don't really

469
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: offense is okay, So it was mostly mostly defensive guys, linebackers,

470
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: and guys who rushed the past. And I kind of

471
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys too. I like Danny White, Randy White,

472
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: Tony Dorsett. Tony Dorsett was probably my guy and all

473
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Speaker 1: of that. M al equippaipa pa. That's how about favorite

474
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: basketball player? Oh, Larry Bird, no question. Yeah, because I

475
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: was a Celtics fan. You were the Celtics or a

476
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: Lakers fan. I knew some Sixers fans, but you know,

477
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: we we grew up in growing up here. You followed

478
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: national teams. Because this is one of the greatest things

479
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: about having the Titans here is this generation of kids

480
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: has a team here exactly. We follow at national teams.

481
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: My friends were Washington fans and Pittsburgh fans and Dallas

482
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: fans and big cass fan right here. Cavs. Yeah, Larry

483
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: nance Craig Elo, the miracle at brad Doherty, Brad Mark Price,

484
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Speaker 1: John hot Rod, williams On hot Rod. Will you Ron

485
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: Harper Harper? Yes, they had the greatest PA announcer at

486
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: the Richfield. They're still at Richfield. It was Rod Harper

487
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: from Miami, Ohio from famous. Your favorite football player? Oh

488
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: my gosh, see, I'm I started watching football and really

489
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: didn't when you start watching football like a year ago

490
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: or how long ago? No, no, no, I grew up

491
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: watching football and my dad. I didn't start paying attention

492
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: really until probably I was in junior high in high school.

493
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Speaker 1: So Tony Romo was my Yeah. Wow, you know she

494
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: watches tape. I do watch. She sits at her dad

495
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: and watch his tape and she's got a clicker. I do,

496
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: and the whole and the whole thing. Oh yeah, every week.

497
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: How about your favorite basketball player. I wasn't a basketball

498
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Speaker 1: fan growing up. It was always Missouri basketball, so a

499
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: big Quinn Snyder was our head coach, so I've kind

500
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: of followed him wherever he has gone. But um, you

501
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: to Jazz. Yeah, so we watched ball guy Don Maddingly

502
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: was of all, absolutely, of all of the idols. Don

503
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: Mattingly was my idol. And Don Maddingly used to come

504
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: apparently to Titans games from Evansville, and that's only one

505
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five miles from here, and he would

506
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: come down to games. So I was playing at a

507
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: golf tournament in Bowling Green and he was two cards

508
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: ahead of me, and they're like, would you like to meet?

509
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: And he stalked him for four hours so bad, so

510
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: I call, I called my best friend and I said,

511
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: Don maddinggle is two cards in front of me. I

512
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna do. I wore twenty three

513
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: I read every article about it. I mean, he more

514
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: so than a football player of basketball player was Done Mattingly.

515
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: So I met him and it was the worst moment

516
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: of my entire life because I went inside and I

517
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: bought Advisor from the pro shop for him to sign,

518
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: and they introduced me. He's like, oh, he goes my son,

519
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: and I we followed the Titans. He said something else

520
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: about coming to a game. I can't really even remember.

521
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: I can't and and he goes, oh, it's so great

522
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: to you know, talk to you and everything. We you know,

523
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: we've followed the team or something, and I'm just I'm

524
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: like okay, and he's like, oh, would you like me

525
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: to sign them? Like I couldn't even speak words. It

526
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: was so horrifying to have that moment because I've been

527
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: around athletes. I asked Michael Jordan a difficult question in

528
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: a press conference once, I mean, and you frozen just no,

529
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: didn't just freeze. I just locked up, melted, locked up.

530
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: It was the worst, absolute, worst moment of my entire life.

531
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Speaker 1: Big Indians fan Corey Snyder Horse not sure, Albert Bell,

532
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: Albert Joey Bell. Albert got paid for several years after

533
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: he quit playing due to a very good contract. Any

534
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: of this make you're You're not a baseball person at all.

535
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm not a baseball person. I went to the Louisville

536
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: Slugger Museum recently and felt just like the dumbest person

537
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: in the room. It was so interesting. But they're like, oh, yeah,

538
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: and so and so did this, and so and so

539
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: used this bat. I was like, that's probably cool, don't

540
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: you got You got the cal Ripkins. I got the

541
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: cal Ripkin thing from my years going to Orioles games.

542
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: All right, that's about it. All right, So here's the question.

543
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: A friend of mine says recently that judgment on people

544
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: can be made by answer to one question. Really, what's

545
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: your favorite movie? Your favorite? He claims, your favorite movie

546
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: tells everything about you in however many words in the

547
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: title of the movie. Okay, so what's your favorite movie? Minds?

548
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: Remember the Titans. I've seen an eight hundred and sixty

549
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: four thousand times. Are you just saying that because we're

550
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: the Titans. No. I went and saw it in the

551
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: theaters with my dad. Okay, yours, sir, Wedding crashers. Nice,

552
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: that's solid. That is a solid choice. Tyler and I

553
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: can sit there and we'll watch like the first hour

554
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: of it and just pretty much just laugh hysterically, and

555
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: then just get up and we'll leave. I have a tie. Actually,

556
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: that's how weak I am. Okay, Animal House, Godfather? Sure?

557
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: Do you like a whole things? Mod I do? It's

558
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: very disconcerted. I know I understand Sopranos. You're gonna love

559
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: Peaky Blinders. Maybe I don't know if I'm gonna do

560
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: the gaudy movie or not. There it's gotten zero rotten tomatoes. Hey,

561
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: let me ask you about another person, because you get

562
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: asked so much about Billichick, and you get asked about

563
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: the different people throughout your career. I'm fascinated by urban Meyer,

564
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: and I think all people in the Southeastern Conference who

565
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: are fans were fascinated by him because he blew into

566
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: this conference and then he kind of blew right out

567
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: and he was wildly successful. Your first meeting with him

568
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: was something else, wasn't it the first actual Yeah, I

569
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: guess it was the first meeting. I mean, he came

570
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: in and he evaluated pretty much. I think it was

571
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: bowl practice. He'd been named the head coach and the

572
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: staff was still going to coach the Gator Bowl or

573
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: whatever we were in. And then we met and he

574
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: was still skeptical of former player and why are you

575
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: doing this? I'm not really sure why, you know, Can

576
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: I trust you? And all these things? And what he

577
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: did is he really made me proved I think myself

578
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: and him that this is what I wanted to do,

579
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, for the rest of my life. And then

580
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: I interviewed and it was awful. I mean, I think

581
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: the interview was awful. I never interviewed for a job,

582
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: especially a coaching job. And you know, he called me

583
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: late after the interview and he was like, that was awful.

584
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: And he's like that was that was brutally awful. Um,

585
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: I want you to come back and and visit again

586
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: at six in the morning, and I got out, you know,

587
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: I got up and left the house, went down to

588
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: the office, just try to put my thoughts together a

589
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: little better. Obviously, it couldn't have been any worse. And

590
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 1: so stay down at the office and was ready to

591
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: go next morning. Did much better. It was much more comfortable,

592
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: it was much more prepared, you know. And it's a

593
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: good reminder. It's always a good reminder. And you know,

594
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: I went into these head coaching interviews and you know

595
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: I would text him or call him and say, hey,

596
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: heading in for another interview. You know, no matter how

597
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: this one goes, it can't be worse than my first one.

598
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, you always say you're gonna do fight,

599
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: you'll be you'll do great, blah blah blah. But it's uh,

600
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, you always try to learn from people that

601
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: you're in contact with, whether that be a friend, a coach,

602
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: somebody that you meet. If you have the ability to

603
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: just to pay attention and focus. You can learn something

604
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: from everybody. Why he's so good. He's ultra ultra competitive,

605
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: he's driven, Um, he's creative. Uh. He demands that, uh,

606
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: that you'd be a good teacher. That he doesn't want

607
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: to hear that it's that kid's fault, you know. He says,

608
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: it's the coach's fault. That that's your job to figure

609
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: out how they need to learn and make sure that

610
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: you know you're you're catering what you're doing to the

611
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: player as opposed to trying to force something on him.

612
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: So I think that I learned how to be a

613
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: teacher from him. Um handle different learning styles. Is there

614
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: one person that you would point to us being the

615
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: biggest influence on the way that you coach today? You know,

616
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: I watched my dad coach basketball when I was little,

617
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 1: and I was an only child, so I did a

618
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: lot with my dad. I was always at practice. You know,

619
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: we'd always have you know, kids over to stay the night.

620
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: We'd you know, whole team would come over. But during

621
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: like winter break, summer break, I was at some open gym.

622
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: I was at summer league basketball. It's the ball boy

623
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: Christmas break or get up, go to the gym. You know, go,

624
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: this is back when high schools had like trampolines and ropes,

625
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: climbing ropes, you know, all this stuff that was in

626
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: the other gym, and I would just sometimes go over there.

627
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: I'd be in a trampoline doing flips or trying to

628
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: swing from the all the stuff that's not in schools anymore.

629
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: Obviously in nineteen you know, eighty five or in nineteen

630
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: eighty two. So I watched him coach. He coached hard,

631
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: He was passionate, cared about his players. They would they

632
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: would be over at the house. You know, they would

633
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: be Super Bowl parties and you know they were entertaining

634
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: and had the players over. So, you know, I think

635
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: probably just learning and watching him coach and just you know,

636
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: being passionate about the game and trying to trying to

637
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: be a teacher. I've already seen you can separate and

638
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: does that come from your dad? In other words, you're

639
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Speaker 1: different all the field with your guys then you are

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Speaker 1: on the field, and not every coach can and even

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Speaker 1: wants to separate, right. You know, Bill Young was our

642
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Speaker 1: was our D line coach at Ohio State. UM. He

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: was a great D line coach and still coaching now.

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Speaker 1: But you know, when you got down there as a freshman,

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Speaker 1: you're like, man, this guy is a lunatic on the field.

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Speaker 1: And then he'd walk through the locker room and he'd

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Speaker 1: sit down and he'd ask you about school or your girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: Then at first you were like, what what is this is?

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Speaker 1: Who is this guy? And uh, you know, you realized

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Speaker 1: at that point that there was there was a separation

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Speaker 1: that was being made. He was trying to push you

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Speaker 1: hard on the field and trying to make things hard,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, wanted to kind of get to

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Speaker 1: know you and see how things were going off the field.

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Speaker 1: So you know, just try to be real, try to

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Speaker 1: be genuine, Try to be honest with the player. I

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Speaker 1: think that they respect that. I don't think you can

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Speaker 1: be shim or you can try to try to fool them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are these are all smart guys,

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Speaker 1: are all professionals. Um, So you try to be honest

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Speaker 1: with him, and you try to give them things that

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00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: can help them help themselves and and then in turn

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Speaker 1: help the team. Coach, we're rounding the bend towards training camp.

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Speaker 1: We're getting closer. Do we get a little preview from

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Speaker 1: you what are we going to see at camp? You know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we see, um, you know, a team that's that's focused,

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Speaker 1: a team that's that's driven, that's competitive, that can practice hard,

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Speaker 1: that can take care of each other. Um, we can.

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Speaker 1: We can practice fast and stay on our feet and

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Speaker 1: avoid a bunch of guys on the ground flopping around.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we're conditioned. Um, hopefully we're having some fun. We

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Speaker 1: find ways to have some fun because you have to.

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Speaker 1: I think in this process you have to have some

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Speaker 1: fun and you have to have some humor. And it's hard.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's hard going out there and ninety guys

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Speaker 1: and it's hot, and uh, practices are hard. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can find the time to to have some fun

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Speaker 1: and relax a little bit, but also, you know, get

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Speaker 1: a lot of work done. I really hope you roll

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Speaker 1: up to camp in that RV. That would be just

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Speaker 1: so cool awesome. I might just sleep in it. I

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Speaker 1: might just pull it out front my parking spot. Just Mike,

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Speaker 1: what has surprised you most about being a head coach?

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Speaker 1: Let's move back to we should end with it. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for taking time with us for this and

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00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: for sharing about your family. You know, people in this

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00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: part of the country, or are fascinated by what's going

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00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: on with your boys and your wife and and everything.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the great parts of living here is

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Speaker 1: people really do care, and not that they don't in

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Speaker 1: other places, but they're they're excited to have you and

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Speaker 1: your family is part of this community and to be

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Speaker 1: the head coach. We're excited to be here. You know.

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Speaker 1: I think that growing up in the Midwest and spending

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00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: some time in Houston and Boston and all these different places,

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Speaker 1: I think what you realize here is that you get

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Speaker 1: you get enough of the Midwest with a with a

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Speaker 1: Southern flavor that that it's pretty cool for us to

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Speaker 1: be here, to be in a community. We're gonna be out,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I'm not gonna hole up in

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Speaker 1: my house and not leave my house. We're gonna do things.

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Speaker 1: We'll be out throwing the first pitch tonight at the

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Speaker 1: Sounds game. Yeah, we Carter, Carter. They they're gonna let

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Speaker 1: Carter throw it out too with me. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the first one didn't go so well over Vanderbilt. It

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Speaker 1: was a little high on outside, so I might try

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Speaker 1: to bring it back into the strike zone. That is

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Speaker 1: a great ballpark that we're excited game, and we love

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Speaker 1: doing that when you go to different cities. We've been

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Speaker 1: to the Birmingham Barons and the Wombus Clippers and all

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Speaker 1: these different places. When you go to Indianapolis, we love

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Speaker 1: going to those ballparks and you know, beating. You know,

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Speaker 1: those smaller parks that are downtown, they're a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: We went to the Pensacola Waves, so we every time

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Speaker 1: we go through we're on a trip, we try to

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Speaker 1: find one and we stop and you know, so we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do the Sounds game tonight. You're gonna love it. Yep,

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Speaker 1: Sope it doesn't rain. That never rains, not on the

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Speaker 1: baseball out on a baseball field. So I will tell

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Speaker 1: you this so you know you bring up baseball. I

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Speaker 1: coach with a guy in fifth grade and he was

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Speaker 1: the ultimate baseball guy, played baseball. Ohiose state and he said, uh,

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Speaker 1: I said, Mike, I said, this is it's not looking good.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like seventy percent chance of rain. He says,

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Speaker 1: you know what, when you're a baseball coach, that means

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Speaker 1: it's thirty percent chance of Sunshae. He taught me a

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Speaker 1: lesson about it doesn't rain when you're playing baseball. I

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Speaker 1: like it, and thank you too for igniting the fire.

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Speaker 1: I know that is going to help a lot of

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Speaker 1: Titans fans get through the five more weeks that we

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Speaker 1: have of having to wait for training camp. Yeah. Probably

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Speaker 1: way too much. Mike Vrabel on the first one for

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Speaker 1: my liking. But the head coach, yeah, I know, I

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Speaker 1: know you look. Even Amy's like, sorry, man, okay. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait for the rest of our staff and our players,

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Speaker 1: for the people to see them. The Tony Doo's episode,

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Speaker 1: Tony You're running back Coaches is quite a guy. He

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Speaker 1: is a worker. They all they all better be working.

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Speaker 1: That's it's their job, teach development, inspire. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Job description, thank you. That's Mike Vrabel, Amy Wells, thank you,

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Speaker 1: great job. Thanks Mike. All right, this is the OTP,

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Speaker 1: the Official Titans Podcast. Thanks for listening. A workday